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defiance 音标拼音: [dɪf'ɑɪəns] n. 挑战,挑衅,蔑视 挑战,挑舋,蔑视 defiance n 1: intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude [ synonym: { defiance}, { rebelliousness}] 2: a hostile challenge 3: a defiant actDefiance \ De* fi" ance\, n. [ OF. defiance, desfiance, challenge, fr. desfier to challenge, F. d[' e] fier. See { Defy}.] 1. The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat. [ 1913 Webster] A war without a just defiance made. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition. [ 1913 Webster] He breathed defiance to my ears. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A casting aside; renunciation; rejection. [ Obs.] " Defiance to thy kindness." -- Ford. [ 1913 Webster] { To bid defiance}, { To set at defiance}, to defy; to disregard recklessly or contemptuously. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] 88 Moby Thesaurus words for " defiance": audacity, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, combative reaction, command, complaint, contempt, contrariness, contumaciousness, contumacy, counteraction, dare, declaration of war, defi, defiance of authority, defy, demur, despite, dispute, dissent, dissentience, effrontery, factiousness, fractiousness, hardihood, headstrongness, impudence, incorrigibility, indocility, indomitability, insolence, insubordination, insuppressibility, insurgency, intractability, intractableness, irrepressibility, muster, negativism, noncooperation, objection, obstinacy, obstreperousness, opposition, order, orneriness, passive resistance, perversity, protest, reaction, rebelliousness, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, refractoriness, reluctance, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repulse, repulsion, resistance, restiveness, revolt, shrewishness, stand, stubbornness, stump, summons, temerity, uncontrollability, uncooperativeness, ungovernability, unmalleability, unmanageability, unmoldableness, unruliness, unsubmissiveness, untamableness, wildness, withstanding
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